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Elizabeth Shakespeare and The Astute Detective
Santa Monica Playhouse presents the world premiere of playwright Abraham Alan Ross's ELIZABETH SHAKESPEARE and the ASTUTE DETECTIVE.
Sexy Stratfordian Elizabeth Shakespeare says she is a descendant of the Bard and is willing to kill to protect his name. But, with a simple key-stroke on his computer, the astute detective, an Oxfordian, can prove Shakespeare didn't write a single word of the plays and sonnets. Via his computer he conjures up The Bard and The Earl from their four centuries demise. And finally, after 400 years, the truth is revealed. Who really wrote those 'Shakespeare' plays? It gets down to a duel of wits about wills and Wills (with a goodly amount of romance along the way). With much at stake, the eventual outcome will surprise, and delight Oxfordians, Stratfordians, and even those who don't know their Othello from their Pericles.
ELIZABETH SHAKESPEARE features stage and screen personalities (alphabetically): Tony Perzow (Tad Maxwell) is a graduate of the LACC Theatre Academy and also President of the TOP Theater Co., a non-profit organization geared towards helping underprivileged kids study the Arts. His stage credits include: Cuthbert's Last Stand, Suburban Redux, The Odd Couple, The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel, You Know What's Coming to Dinner, The Merchant of Venice, Lives of The Saints, Terminating, The Narrow Road to The Deep North, and Dating Stories. Most recently LA audiences saw him on stage in The Last Days Of Judas Iscariot (The Odyssey Theater) and Angelo's (Studio Stage.) Written by Perzow, the critically acclaimed Angelo's is currently being developed into a sitcom.
Pia Pownall (Elizabeth Shakespeare) graduated Suma Cum Laude from of the University of Florida and New World School of the Arts with a BFA in Acting/Drama. East Coast stage credits include Marlene in Top Girls, Katerina Cavalieri in Amadeus, Lucille Cadeau in the acclaimed production of House and Garden and her own one woman show Shotgun!. In Los Angeles , she has been in the world-premiere stage productions of Without Doors (The Whitmore-Lindley Theatre) and My Beautiful Wife (The Complex Theatre) and the long running, wonderfully received Zephyr production of The Last Schwartz. Her film and television credits include Killer Nurse, Haunted, Erased.
James Schendel (Shakespeare, Earl of Oxford, et al) has appeared in dozens of Shakespeare's plays with The Old Globe Theatre, The Nevada Shakespeare Festival, and Shakespeare at Play. Some of his favorite roles include Prospero in The Tempest, Malvolio in Twelfth Night, Polonius in Hamlet, and Caesar in Julius Caesar. Last March, audiences in Las Vegas saw him as Tranio in a touring production of The Taming of the Shrew. In addition, he has performed at schools and community events all over Southern California and Las Vegas as Shakespeare in his one-man show Visiting Shakespeare. Television credits include The West Wing, General Hospital, Life Goes On and Gabriel's Fire. On the big screen, he has appeared in Too Young to Die? and Bankrobber.
Playwright Abraham Alan Ross began acting, writing and directing at an early age. In more recent years The Malibu Stage Company produced his play Brodsky and the Bandit and the Hollywood Stage Company put a trilogy of his one act plays. In collaboration with Bonnie Sanders, his long-time writing partner, he penned and produced a quartet of musical plays dealing with socially relevant issues for the John L. Webster School in Malibu . Ross is the author of 21 screenplays, (three optioned and one in development), several full length and one act plays. His semi-autobiographical novel "The Lasso Man" will be published later this year. This is his first collaboration with Santa Monica Playhouse.
Director Chris DeCarlo has been acting, writing and directing in Los Angeles for more than 40 years. As Co-Artistic Director of Santa Monica Playhouse and its resident acting companies, Actors' Repertory Theatre and the Young Professionals' Company, since 1973 together with his partner Evelyn Rudie , he has been responsible for bringing over 500 productions to the boards. Chris has directed countless World Premieres, including the critically acclaimed stage adaptation of Dostoevsky's Notes From Underground, Hard Laughs starring Sammy Shore and Ron Palillo, four of Jerry Mayer's comedies including the award-winning Aspirin & ELEPHANTS, the L.A. TIMES Critics Pick Sroka/Fleming comedy Dying for Laughs starring Stuart Pankin, Annie Reiner's Mirage a Trois, Brenda Krantz's Lovely! starring Louise Sorrell, and the Ovation-nominated Picon Pie. As Co-Artistic Director of Santa Monica Playhouse, he has been directly responsible for more than 250 American and World Premieres, including Michel Garneau's Quatre a Quatre, Stephen King and Robert B. Parker's RAGE, and the long-running hit musical Funny, You Don't Look Like A Grandmother by Lois Wyse, Sheilah Rae and Robert Waldman.
Produced by Bonnie Sanders, Andy Rodman and Santa Monica Playhouse
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LocationSanta Monica Playhouse
1211 4th Street
Santa Monica, CA 90401
United States
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| Minimum Age: 13 |
| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: No |
| Wheelchair Accessible: No |
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